Tonight Show Host Jay Leno Out of Hospital (Photos)

Jay Leno is out of the hospital and back at home, and returning to work on Monday. Read more on Jay Leno below.

Leno admitted himself to a hospital and stayed Thursday night, cancelling his first Tonight Show recording since taking over for Johnny Carson in 1992.

Jay Leno was released on Friday afternoon to return to his Los Angeles home.

Tonight Show spokeswoman Tracy St. Pierre squashed internet rumors saying that Leno had suffered a heart attack, although she couldn’t provide details of what ailed him.

“No!” she told the New York Daily News. “He’s doing fine … He was kidding around with the hospital staff and running his monologue jokes by the doctors and the nurses.”

She also denied speculation that Leno had food poisoning, but declined to elaborate.

Jay Leno will be hosting the Tonight Show for the final time on May 29 after 17 years. But he will continue on NBC, with a Monday-through-Friday program at 10 p.m., starting in the fall.

Conan O’Brien will host the Tonight Show beginning June 1st in the slot that follows the local 11:00 p.m. news.

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